Album review: Editors - 'In This Light And On...
Can it really be this bad living with Edith Bowman? A dispute over nappy-changing: “You’ll get old and die here… you’ll choke, choke on the air you try to breathe” . Edith shaves her legs and doesn’t rinse the bath: “If there...
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Textbooks out: the world’s gloomiest physics teacher is back and ready to regale us with another of his mortality-based questions. “If a plane were to fall from the sky/How big a hole would it leave in the surface of the Earth?” Cripes....
Editors
In 2005 Editors were peddling wannabe stadium rock from their distinctly average debut ‘The Back Room’. Now, due to a series of incredible summer slots, they’re more popular at festivals than Michael Eavis with a cake tray, and are making...
Editors: An End Has A Start
Mouths are wired shut. Skin hangs gaunt from flesh-starved bones. Planes simply drop out of the sky while witnesses stand shrugging, watching to see how big a hole the crash makes. And outside the terminal wards the smokers pace and fret, unaware...
Editors: Parr Hall, Warrington, Tuesday May 22
They’re the worst band on the planet, a tuneless, talentless shower of Joy Division copyist fuckwits. Their whining, dreary, two-note-monotone singer sounds like a cancerous baboon having his tonsils amputated and they should, by act of law, be...
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In a season of lifeless comebacks, it seems Editors have found their life-force in death itself. ‘Smokers…’ is a dizzying gurn across the contradictions of terminal illness, asking, “How can we smile with our jaws wired shut?” and...
Editors : London King’s Cross Scala, Tuesday...
There are many baffling contradictions in the world of music today. Take Arctic Monkeys: a great band with a terrible name. Crazy Frog has a great name but the music’s terrible. The best guitarist in Oasis plays bass. Not least, there’s the...
Editors : The Back Room
Editors are four maudlin chaps from Birmingham who wear garb that even Nosferatu’s stylist would reject as a tad sombre. This, coupled with the fact that the eerily-titled ‘The Back Room’ deals mostly with the subjects of death, disease and...
Editors : Blood
Precisely one decade ago, in the thick of the long, hot Britpop summer, hit indie singles typically featured young whippersnappers with comedy sideburns tearing round the beach on Chopper bikes singing songs about smoking cigarettes and putting...
